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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mrmanager@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.

Use this link to avoid going to Twitter:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/BrendanEich/status/1684561924191842304

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[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 79 points 1 year ago

Brendan Eich is vocally against gay marriage, it's not a secret. Also Brave is fuckin SKETCHY. They've always come up with "creative" ways of making money, sometimes inserting affiliate links into their users' searches, sometimes selling their data, other times getting into weird crypto schemes.

Every time somebody catches them doing something sketchy, they put out a big "OOPS SORRY THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT" statement, and their fanboys just forgive them and act like it's no big deal. Then they troll Reddit (and now Lemmy) blindly repeating how great and privacy-focused Brave is.

The only browser worth your time is Firefox. If you insist on sticking with a Chromium-based browser (which is most of them, including Brave), then Arc is pretty damn cool.

[-] Derproid@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Woah when were they caught selling user data, that would be a huge blow to them as a privacy focused browser that I've somehow never heard of.

[-] world_hopper@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The only thing I really found, based on a Google search, is that they sold copyrighted data to train AI models. Still bad, but for completely different reasons and that's a bigger fish than just brave.

But maybe I didn't find what the other commenter was thinking of.

[-] Derproid@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Lol so it literally never happened. I guess it's true that the biggest source of misinformation is random people on the internet.

[-] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I'll have to look into Arc.

[-] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also lol, sounds like Apple Fanboys.

[-] s0q@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This right here. I am generally very open to new browsers and frankly I am okay with Edge and even chrome as long as their parent companies are open about what data they collect and how they use it. I just do not get the same thing with Brave, and the crypto link injection was the final nail for me. Their fan boys are a weird base.

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